I love the protracted pacing of this extended piece. The timing is serene, and in its unhurried advance it benevolently embraces the beautiful tones emerging from the barrel of the flute. Such great breath control. It must be an incredible feeling to become at one with an instrument like this.

In past lives, VicDiesel was a country fiddler, a shawm player at the Burgundy court, bellows pumper for JS Bach, Geoff Emerick's factotum, and a beggar playing drums in the streets of Calcutta for alms. Unusually, the memories of all that co... [see more]